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September 18, 2010, Saturday
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ONLY 5 percent of Americans do anything vigorous such as running, biking or aerobics on a given day and preparing meals is the most common moderate physical activity, according to a new research.
In a study that looked at the intensity of what Americans do daily, researchers found that exercise was not high on the list.
Americans favored sedentary tasks such as making phone calls and grabbing a snack over activities that require them to get up and move.
"The greatest prevalence for reported moderate activities was food and drink preparation," Catrine Tudor-Locke and her team said in a report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Overall only 5.07 percent report any vigorous intense activity."
The findings, by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are based on US Bureau of Labor statistics on the habits of nearly 80,000 people between 2003 and 2008.
Of moderately intense tasks, the most common at 25.7 percent was preparing meals, which was below the 80 percent of people who cited watching television or going to the movies, or the 28 percent of people who read.
The study shows Americans are five times more likely to spend time in the kitchen than doing something physically demanding, confirming the couch potato stereotype.
In a study that looked at the intensity of what Americans do daily, researchers found that exercise was not high on the list.
Americans favored sedentary tasks such as making phone calls and grabbing a snack over activities that require them to get up and move.
"The greatest prevalence for reported moderate activities was food and drink preparation," Catrine Tudor-Locke and her team said in a report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Overall only 5.07 percent report any vigorous intense activity."
The findings, by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are based on US Bureau of Labor statistics on the habits of nearly 80,000 people between 2003 and 2008.
Of moderately intense tasks, the most common at 25.7 percent was preparing meals, which was below the 80 percent of people who cited watching television or going to the movies, or the 28 percent of people who read.
The study shows Americans are five times more likely to spend time in the kitchen than doing something physically demanding, confirming the couch potato stereotype.
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